Is Sugar Toxic?

[mckitterick]

First, read this NYT article on why sugar is so dangerous to your health. I'll wait.

I stopped eating refined sugars a year ago, and within two weeks I lost 10 pounds. I also started feeling healthier almost right away. This is why: Not only does sugar (cane, corn, you name it - refined sugar) make us fat, but it also causes insulin resistance. This makes it a primary cause for diabetes and metabolic syndrome. That means sugar causes heart disease. Worse yet, because of all these effects, it promotes cancer.

There's a terrifying thought, considering that it's in almost every prepared food you find in the grocery store.


Click the image to see the NYT article.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to give up refined sugar for one month. See how much your body responds.

Starting today, I'm giving up on diet soda, as well. Why? One's body sees the artificial sweetener and produces insulin in response... so the most dangerous aspect of sugar - that it promotes these diseases - can't be avoided by using artificial sweeteners in place of sugar. I've been noticing soreness in my guts, what appears from all symptoms to be a gall-bladder issue. Therefore, my body is responding to diet soda by producing insulin and increasing my triglycerides (blood fat) from artifical sweetneners.

*sigh*

I'll report in a month on how that's going. I hope to hear from YOU, too!

Good luck.
Chris

Comments

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I bet! Heck, it's not just coffee shops, either: Go out to any restaurant and watch all the crap they bring with a meal, including bread (with a cup of margarine), toast (with piles of jelly), and so forth. I've also given up bread (and most other grains), which is what gave me the rest of my weight loss, more than the sugar even, and eliminated my joint pain. Apparently, most people have at least a small allergy to gluten and grain husks.

Most fats we eat in the US are bad for us: Anything from seeds (not vegetables - that's a marketing lie!) contains too much "bad" fat, and animals that don't eat their natural diets do, too. For example, beef fat isn't actually bad for you... if the cows eat grass and such. As soon as we start feeding them corn (and other cows...), they sport mostly omega-6 fats, which are bad.

[karin-gastreich.livejournal.com]

oh goodness -- we've turned our cows into carnivores? How awful...